Games We Can Play in Middle School

Alphabetical Order

To Middle School girls: Our goals at Chapin are to stay focused on "school-appropriate" computer usage. The following URLs are games that are okay to play when at Chapin, since they have been specified by Middle School teachers in terms of fitting in with the curriculum and being educational. There are many links to other games on our Chapin Web pages that are fine for home use but not for school.

    Typing Games:

  • Al Bunny Typing
  • Arcade style typing tutor for the Mac ... posted Nov 2004 ... we have purchased an extended site license for this software from Alex White ... the SERIAL number is posted in Software 4 Students section of Public Conferences within GatorNet .. the programmer Alex writes in response to some students being unable to get past level 3 that "when your student enters the serial # (remembering to press enter before pressing the return to game button). When she does so a window will pop up saying a) the # was incorrect or b) she entered the right number. Knowing which response she gets will help me narrow my focus. Also if the window says that she entered the correct number, have her play the game through the third level to make sure that this was not the problem all along. (The registration window is a bit confusing. I need to make it fail proof.) There was a problem with an older version. Version 1.1.8 can be downloaded here http://homepage.mac.com/whiteman/ATT.html."
  • Cosmic Ball (On Typing Pal)
  • Typer Shark - click on 'Play Online'
  • Typing Bubbles

    • English games:

  • Apostrophe Catastrophe Note: Just make up an ID number to enter the site
  • Eats Shoots & Leaves
  • Grammar Blast
  • Grammar Gorilla
  • Power Proofreading
  • Reading Brain - Mad Libs

    • Math games:

  • Binary Fun
  • Brainteasers Tune in weekly to this site for new brainteasers designed to challenge you. Check back a week later to see if you've solved them correctly. Hints are provided for each question.
  • Consecutive Numbers Problem Test your skills at logic as well as number operations! Try to arrive at a series of consecutive numbers that add up to a target total.
  • Math Brain
  • Math is Fun This is an entertaining site filled with interactive activities and printable materials. Topics include long division, fractions, graphs, polygons, proofing, and prime numbers. Be sure to investigate the logic puzzles and games that are provided. Try your hand at "Connect 4" and the "Tower of Hanoi!"

    • Geography games:

  • Skill Spider's Geography Game ... requires the standard chapin login (begins with c) and password (begins with w) .. see picture below or click on it!

    • Puzzles and other games:

  • AIMS Puzzle Corner This site offers clearly-illustrated puzzles and solutions that will capture your imagination. First, click on which type of puzzle you would like. Many require that you first download and/or print a worksheet. New puzzles are listed each month.
  • Analytical Problems And Puzzles This very simple site is a treasury for logic problems and lateral thinking puzzles. You may also choose to receive a hint to help you find the correct answer.
  • Archimedes’ Laboratory Puzzles With puzzles to make, puzzles to solve, and optical illusions to observe, this interactive site puts brains and eyes to the test. The site also has a maze maker, math games, word games, and tricks to perform.
  • Brain Binders This is a collection of instructions for puzzles involving paper folding. The site includes patterns which you can download and print.
  • Brain Explorer This site offers riddles, illusions, and other mental adventures. Brain-bending games include Memory Solitaire, Welcome to the Third Dimension, and Jumping to Conclusions. Some are entirely "on-line interactive," while others require some effort with paper and pencil.
  • Brain Food This site offers links to hundreds of challenging activities, including word games, logic problems, and riddles, that will provide a work-out for the mind.
  • BrainQuest This site offers a collection of games, puzzles and activities designed to challenge active minds.
  • Chess for Kids This is a fully developed instructional site about chess from two students who have mastered the game. More importantly, they've been able to describe strategies and chess information in terms that are clear and understandable. There are levels for all abilities from beginner to expert.
  • Decipher a Coded Message Calling all gumshoes! Your mission is to analyze and crack a simple cipher. Don’t worry. this online tool provides instructions and hints along the way. If you like to solve cryptograms, you'll enjoy applying your knowledge of words, spelling, and sentence structure to this activity.
  • Enchanted Mind Puzzles If you're a "puzzle person," you'll love this challenging collection of Java-based puzzles. There are computer-based versions of Mastermind, Rubik's cube, and nearly a dozen other thinking and reasoning games.
  • Four-piece Tangram Move, rotate, or flip the tangram pieces to fit them into the given picture.
  • Illusions These ten interactive optical illusions demonstrate how the eye can be easily deceived and provide an opportunity to question and analyze what you're actually seeing.
  • Make Your Own Kaleidoscope Experiment with lines, fills, and color to create your own kaleidoscope!
  • More Brain Teasers A creative collection of puzzles and brainteasers that will certainly challenge you!
  • NSA Kids' Pages Here's a full collection of puzzles, games, and activities designed around codes, logic, and ciphers. You'll also find links to a variety of other sleuthing tools, and information about how codes work.
  • Online Etch-A-Sketch See what was considered high tech thirty years ago! The online version of the famous drawing toy performs much as the original did. Just don’t try to clear your screen by turning it upside down and shaking it!
  • Play SET Online See if you can find all six sets of three. Cards must either be all the same or all different in each of the four categories: color, filling, number, and shape. A new puzzle is offered each day.
  • Playing With Time Amazing sights await you in this site that takes a fascinating look at how the world around you changes. Visitors can actually control the passage of time - speed it up or slow it down - and view the coming of spring, the evolution of the continents, or the incredible functions of the human eye. Follow the Activities link to find some visually challenging interactive activities.
  • Protozone Interactive Exercise your creativity and strengthen your visual/spatial intelligence with this collection of interactive programs that encourage drawing, playing and exploring.
  • Questacon This collection - part of an extensive site from Australia's Questacon museum - includes lots of optical illusions and deceptively simple puzzles designed to challenge perceptual abilities, logic, and higher-order thinking skills.
  • Random Sudoku Sudoku fans will enjoy learning new problem-solving techniques on this site, helpful for successfully conquering some of the most fiendish puzzles. Learn about crosshatching, slicing and dicing, and "penciling in." Discover the five rules that stress finding numbers for squares, rather than finding squares for numbers.
  • "Solitaire" Scrabble The challenge and creativity of the original board game comes alive in this virtual version. Review the available tools that can undo, redo, withdraw, sort, and even save an uncompleted game.
  • Tower of Hanoi You win this game if you can move all the rings to the rod on the right. You can't put a larger ring on top of a smaller ring. Good luck!"
  • Tritis Try to form complete rows with falling blocks by fitting them into the existing structure.
  • The Ultimate Puzzle Site This collection of puzzles, riddles, brainteasers, and interactive tests will challenge you to think outside of the box and provide a fun way for you to improve your analytical skills.
  • Word Morph This challenging, interactive word game requires you to use strategy and vocabulary skills to make changes to a starting word - one letter at a time - and form a new word. Each word morph can be solved in 10 moves or less, but must be completed within 5 minutes.

 

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